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These posts of yours make me think of that speech Rhett Butler gives in GWTW (fiction, of course, not necessarily history): RHETT: I mean, Mr. Hamilton, there's not a cannon factory in the whole South. MAN: What difference does that make, sir, to a gentleman? RHETT: I'm afraid it's going to...

EVAN MCMURRY The fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown hardly occurred in a vacuum. It hit television and Twitter just weeks after the death of Eric Garner at the hands of the NYPD, and amidst a public still stung from the protracted battle over the shooting of Trayvon Martin...

Those who are genuinely interested in this whole "parents are to blame for everything" tack may want to look at the whole Rahm Emanuel/Chicago, Wm Hite/Philadelphia business. One can't help but wonder why these black parents are protesting so vehemently if they are so disinterested in their...

Now that's the dumbest thing I've read since all this got started. Congratulations.

Well, you're not always a model of diplomacy and restraint, but then neither am I. But you are fun to read. Whether or not I agree with everything you say is beside the point.

You certainly are picking up a lot of new fans. :)

Sorry, I answered your first two questions before I saw this one and thought they were serious. My mistake. But I'll leave the answers there in case anyone else might benefit from them. Incidentally, Michael Brown was going to be entering college in a few days. But he won't be registering now...

A. Well, of course, the poor don't have any of that. If you doubt it, just get in your car and go visit an inner-city school (and by "inner-city" I mean poor). But beyond that, if you're really interested, look at what's happening with regard to privatization, which as usual leaves the poor out...

You have yet to present any facts at all, just opinions. And opinions which are based on limited experience at that. And, no, it's not "whitey's" fault that kids fail. I enumerated all that earlier today. So has the DOE. Nor have you presented any "reasons", just your own prejudices.

N\ Not likely that you'll ever humiliate me. But you're welcome to keep trying. Clearly you have no idea how much you reveal about yourself with the posts you make. Hint: you may want to have that Caps Lock key looked at.

Repeating yourself so quickly? Running out of things to say? Surely not.

Again, I've got 20 yrs under my belt teaching kids from all over the country. You're a "volunteer" at some school somewhere. And all the tap dancing you do regarding how it's all the parents' fault just won't fly. Review the DOE stats if you like, but I doubt you will since it isn't possible for...

Maverick already did that. :)

Sorry, but I can't help thinking of that old joke, asking Mary Todd Lincoln, "But all that aside, how did you enjoy the play?"

Yes, please do. (Who is Clubber Lang?)

With regard to this particular situation, it's fantasy since no one knows what happened other than two teenagers robbed a convenience store and were later confronted by a policeman. All but a few of you are approaching this as if it were a treatment for a screenplay. It's not. It's real life...

All of which, in the absence of a video, is just fantasy, woven by someone who desperately wants the cop to be right and the dead teenager to have deserved what happened to him. We'll never know.

Recommended reading . . . Hardcover – January 1, 1974 by Otto Bettmann 71 customer reviews This book explains why the "good old days" were only good for a privileged few and why they were unrelentingly hard for most. Sobering, actually. Check it out.

Has nothing to do with left or right but of soldier vs journalist. We traded for the soldier because you don't leave one of your own behind, regardless of whether he's suspected of desertion or not. Granted some in the military would have been glad to leave him there to rot, but that would have...

Not if it didn't matter whether one passed the test or not.